Sir Christopher Gent may be a great CEO, but he's not worth eight million options.
The man I mean is, naturally -- well, not Jackie Robinson, but an equally monumental gent.
Philippe Haspeslagh took over last year at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium.
The blazered white British gent with his pint of foaming bitter is portrayed as an endangered species.
And Mr Gent certainly does not deserve such generosity on the basis of the Mannesmann deal alone.
More damaging still are reports of tactless comments by Chris Gent, Vodafone's boss, over the Christmas break.
About as much as an enigmatic Japanese gent with a Jack Russell terrier has to do with Nissan.
Gent predicted the state will sustain an average of 15 hours of rolling blackouts a week throughout the summer.
Mr Gent, a retired head of Trading Standards at Oldham Council, was "a very well respected" officer, councillors said.
Like a tuxedoed gent with a blackjack in his vest pocket, the wallop is here when you need it.
If this deal leads to Vodafone acquiring both Vivendi and Mannesmann, Mr Gent will probably judge it good value.
Gent, the CEO of Vodafone, was blocked by Vivendi from a controlling stake in Cegetel, France's No. 2 telecom.
Mr Gent is being rewarded for spending money, rather than for making it.
Christian Bale is the placid Bruce Wayne, a swank gent in Armani suits.
Vodafone's Chris Gent will head up the company, while, contrary to expectations, Klaus Esser will stay with the merged company.
"We have agreed between us that Vodafone AirTouch will be making a revised proposal to Mannesmann shareholders, " Mr Gent said.
Even if Mr Gent does deserve some financial pats on the back for his trouble, the one he has got is poorly structured.
With the mounting pressure in Brussels Midi station, I decided to get on a train to Gent - only 150km away from Calais.
We've been ahead of the pack before in choosing Chris Gent of Vodafone and Jean-Martin Folz of Peugeot as top executives of the year.
Mr Gent's bonus also implies that mergers deserve special rewards that do not apply to other decisions, such as internal reorganisation or organic growth.
Although Mr Gent was in Dusseldorf, the headquarters of Mannesmann, there were no official plans for him to meet with Klaus Esser, Mannesmann's boss.
It's a sly, ironic portrait of a Goethe-quoting 60-something gent who is dating a considerably younger woman, much to the sardonic amusement of her friends.
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Derek Gent, 69, and Michael Holmes, 68, of Rochdale, were walking on the island of Koh Samui when a crash involving several cars happened on Saturday.
To date this season, his best results have been sixth in the Gent-Wevelgem and fourth on a stage of his home event, the Tour Down Under.
The danger is that Mr Gent's type of bonus will catch on, encouraging other managers to do deals irrespective of whether they create value for shareholders.
Mr Gent is reported to have offered embattled German conglomerate Mannesmann a 49.9% stake in the combined company if it drops its opposition to the merger.
As the story goes, a lucky gent ordered a Samsung Nexus S on eBay and, upon its arrival, noticed that his new prized possession looked a little... different.
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Mr Esser won better terms for his shareholders than Mr Gent did for his: Mannesmann makes up almost half of the new company despite having been the smaller of the two firms.
The merger creates a huge IT group under Vodafone chief executive Chris Gent, with some 42 million customers and interests ranging from the Americas and Australia through the UK, France, Germany and Italy.
With Terrence Howard as a saddened, philosophical street operator named Harvey Boarden, a gent who barely survives in the urban muck, and Zulay Henao as the vulnerable young single mother the hero falls for.
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